# Implicit-Bias
Project Title: Implicit Bias Among Clinicians that Treat Vascular Disease
Grant 19CDA34760135, American Heart Association
Grant 5K01HL146900, National Institute of Health/National Heart Lung and Blood Institute 
Project Description: This project sought to examine the prevalence and degree of unconscious bias and awareness of bias among clinicians that treating vascular disease.
Citations: Howard KA, Witrick B, Clark A, Morse A, Atkinson K, Kapoor P, McGinigle KL, Minc S, Alabi O, Hicks CW, Gonzalez A, Cené CW, Cykert S, Kalbaugh CA. Investigating Unconscious Race Bias and Bias Awareness Among Vascular Surgeons. medRxiv [Preprint]. 2024 Jun 5:2024.06.04.24308457. doi: 10.1101/2024.06.04.24308457. PMID: 38883745; PMCID: PMC11177910. (preprint)
Methods:Participants were shown a series of White and Black individuals as well as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ words and are then asked to group the individuals shown with each word presented on the screen as quickly as possible. Six self-administered survey questions were used to measure participant conscious bias: “I am biased,” “Everyone, including me, has biases toward other people,” “Unwanted biases probably influence my decisions about other people,” “Unwanted bias may affect the way I make decisions without my realizing it,” “Unwanted biases may influence my perception of the world around me,” and “Unwanted bias may influence my interactions with other people.” Each question included strongly agree, moderately agree, slightly agree, slightly disagree, moderately disagree, strongly disagree, and prefer not to answer as response options. All data were administered and stored on a secure SSL encrypted website managed by Project Implicit, the company that created the survey. All analyses were run using SAS software version 9.4 (SAS Institute, Cary, NC) survey procedures that reflect weighting in the computation of estimates.
Corey A. Kalbaugh, PhD, MS
Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana
ckalbaug@iu.edu 
License: CC-BY-NC-ND.
